Inner compartment for candy boxes



y 1952 I I. A. DELINE 2,605,039

INNER COMPARTMENT FOR CANDY BOXES Filed Aug. 20, 1949 INVENTOR. few/Y6 4QEL/NE BY Patented July .29, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE INNERCOMPARTMENT FOR CANDY BOXES Irving A. Deline, Denver, 0010.

Application August 20, 1949, Serial No. 111,467

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a cardboard box, and more particularly to abox of the type used for packing candies and confections.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple, one-piecemember which will divide a candy box into a plurality of compartments.

Another object of the invention is to provide an inner sub-box within acandy box which can be inexpensively formed and quickly erected from asingle sheet of cardboard.

A further object of the invention is to provide a braced inner boxwithin a candy box which cannot shift in any direction, so as to preventcrushing of the candy therein.

Other objects and advantages reside in the detail construction of theinvention, which is designed for simplicity, economy, and efliciency.These will become more apparent from the following description.

In the following detailed description of the invention, reference is hadto the accompanying drawing which forms a part hereof. Like numeralsrefer to like parts in all views of the drawing and throughout thedescription.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is a face view of a cardboard blank cut to form the improvedinner box member of a candy box;

Fig. 2 illustrates the blank form of Fig. 1 folded for insertion in acandy box; and

Fig. 3 illustrates the improved inner box construction in place in aconventional candy box.

In the drawing, a conventional candy box is indicated at II), with itsbottom at II. The 1inproved inner box consists of a stamped blank ofcardboard or similar foldable material, such as illustrated in Fig. 1. I

The cardboard blank is formed to provide a sub-bottom portion I2terminating at its extremity in relatively short side members I3 joinedto the bottom I2 by means of a scored fold line I4. The sides of thesub-bottom portion I2 join two relatively long side members I5 joined tothe bottom portion I2 by means of scored fold lines I6. The longer sideportions I5 terminate at their extremities in elongated flaps I'I joinedto the side members I5 by means of scored fold lines I8.

The side members I3 and I5 and the flaps II are of uniform width and ofa width corresponding to the depth of the candy box III. The sidemembers I5 correspond in length to the length of the sub-bottom portionI2, and this length is equal to the inner width of the box I0.

2 The width of the sub-bottom portion I2, plus the length of two of theflaps I1, is equal to the inner length of the box ID. The length of theshort side members I3 corresponds to the width of the sub-bottom I2.

In forming the device for insertion in the box III, the four sidemembers I3 and I5 are turned upwardly on their fold lines I4 and I6 toextend vertically on the sub-bottom portion I2. The flaps II are thenturned at right angles to the planes of the longer side portions I5, asshown in Fig. 2. The entire folded structure is then slipped within thebox Ill.

It will be noted that the device divides the box I0 into threecompartments, the middle compartment being an inner box formed by thesub-bottom I2 and the side members I3 and I5. It will also be noted thatthis inner box cannot shift in any direction, since the flaps I1 preventmovement toward the ends of the box.

It will also be noted that the side flaps I5 are rigidly supported intheir vertical position by means of the support formed by the outwardlyextending flaps I'I. Therefore, an exceedingly rigid structure isprovided which prevents endwise movement of the candy, and which allowspacking of the box to display three different varieties of candy.

The flaps I and the short side member I3 serve as a cushioningreinforcement for the sides of the box I0. No gluing or other attachmentis necessary. The entire device is held in place by frictionalengagement with the side walls of the box I0, and by the weight of thecontents on the subbottom I2.

While a specific form of the improvement has been described andillustrated herein, it is to be understood that the same may be varied,within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from thespirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed and desired secured:by Letters Patent is:

A candy box structure comprising an outer box; an inner box equalling inlength the width of the outer box a sub-floor in said inner box;upwardly turned end members at the extremities of said sub-floor lyingagainst the sides of said outer box; upwardly turned side members alongthe sides of said inner box; a flap folded outwardly from each extremityof each of said latter side members, said, flaps being positioned to liealong the inside faces of the sides of said outer box and to contact theends of the latter to prevent endwise movement of said inner box. saidend 3 members, said side members, and said flaps all UNITED STATESPATENTS being of a. single thickness equal to the thickness Number NameDate of said sub-bottom, all of said latter members 1 585 682 OppenheimMay 25 1926 and said flaps terminating in a cut upper edge 1808922Gamstel June 1931 positioned in alignment with the upper edges of 51:987:771 Bueschel Jan 1935 831d 2,314,491 Greenberg Mar. 23, 1943IRVING A. DELINE.

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